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good saturday morning to you. i'm katie phang. as you know, today is the very first episode of "the katie phang show." as we meet here every saturday and sunday morning at 7:00 a.m., we'll cover so many topics. some serious and some with a lighter touch. but everything we talk about on the show will be with the attempt to learn more together, to take a deeper dive into the issues that are important for all of us. there's also going to be segments that are very personal to me that tackle issues that have touched my life but i also know are likely shared experiences with many of you. we want to hear from you about the topics you think are important to cover. reach out via twitter, instagram, facebook and tiktok at @kat deephangshow. let's get started. here is the first question i'm asking this morning. does the horrific attack on civilians at a ukrainian train station prove that the west needs to rethink its strategy in this war?

the pentagon, along with several other world leaders, have accused russia, but the kremlin denies responsibility. we have to warn you, the images you're about to see are graphic and are very disturbing. we feel it's important that you see the truth of what is happening in ukraine. it breaks your heart, but it also makes your blood boil hearing that dozens of women, elderly people and children who were simply trying to get to safety became the newest targets for this campaign of terror. russia is still denying responsibility as more than 50 people lay dead. even more han house, the missile had the words "for the children" written on its side. ali velshi spoke nate moogt, the ceo of world central kitchen. he had just been at the train station and was nearby when the missile hit. >> there were no other military people there. there were no -- this is not a

strategic location to strike. this was a strike solely on innocent civilians, women, children, grandparents. >> the united states and europe have tried to get putin to back down with hard hitting sanctions. they've targeted the country's oligarchs. they've seized their yachts and the united nations even kicked russia off its human rights council this week. but despite all of this, the war crimes, they continue. so is it time for the united states and its allies to try a different stronger path? we're going to dig into that question coming up. this morning, we're going to start with the latest on the ground in ukraine. raff sanchez is life in lviv. that horrific train attack must be weighing on the hearts of ukrainians this morning. >> reporter: absolutely. of the thousands and thousands of people packed in the train station, many were on their way here to the relative safety of

lviv. this train station -- that station is still not operational after that russian missile strike. i asked that volunteer how does it feel knowing that so many of those people killed yesterday in the east were supposed to be safe here in the west today. take a listen. >> it is horrible. 52 people -- >> those 52 people should have been here in lviv. >> the most part of them, be in lviv. >> instead they've been killed. how does that feel? >> terrible. terrible. i didn't expect it will be in europe in our times. >> that's the latest on the ground, but i do --

>> reporter: go ahead. katie, president zelenskyy was visited by ursula von der leyen, the president of the european commission. the fact that such a senior european official felt it was safe to come here to kyiv to visit president zelenskyy raises questions about whether we might start seeing american officials coming to kyiv. it's very unlikely that president biden would come here into the middle of a war zone, but is it possible we could see secretarial blinken, we could see other figures. ursula von der leyen started her visit at the site of the massacre in bucha, that suburb outside of kyiv. she says she will do everything in her power to speed up ukraine's membership of the european union. that would be huge for this country, even if it isn't allowed to join nato, if it

could join the european union, that would be a massive step for ukraine after this war. katie. >> that's the latest on the ground. thank you, raf. i want to know, as more evidence of war crimes surface, does diplomacy have its limits? coming up, we'll ask evelyn farkas what really needs to be done to stop these atrocities and whether the west needs to rethink its strategy. now to washington where the january 6th committee appears to be closing in on donald trump. lawmakers finally got their shot at ivanka, questioning her for eight hours. now there's even bigger questions about whether don jr. could be called to testify after cnn reported that he texted former chief of staff mark meadows some ideas for overturning the 2020 election before it was called. ali raffa is live on capitol hill. >> reporter: yeah, katie. this was a big week of developments for the january 6th committee. this latest layer is coming from

this new cnn report, as you mentioned that says the former president's eldest son, donald trump jr., texted then white house chief of staff mark meadows two days after the election and two days before president biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election talking about strategies for how to overturn the results of the election, and nbc news has an independently verified these texts, but cnn is saying they're a part of a trove of evidence given to the january 6th committee. the strategists mentioned in them are things we saw play out in the months after the election, like several lawsuits in swing states, calls for recounts in swing states, the fake electors plot we talked about. one text says, quote, it's very simple. we have multiple paths. we control them all. we have operational control, total leverage, moral high

ground, potus must start second term now. the message suggests that if none of those strategies i just mentioned work, lawmakers in congress could actually vote to keep former president trump in office. for trump jr.'s part, his attorney issued a statement to cnn saysing quote, after the election don received numerous messages from supporters and others. given the date this likely originate friday someone else and was forwarded. regardless of whether it was forwarded or not, it adds to the evidence that the committee has been building that suggests that trump's allies were planning ways to overturn the election results even before they were called. as far as this -- as far as how this helps the committee, we know donald trump jr. hasn't been officially subpoenaed to testify before the committee, but neither was his sister ivanka trump or his brother-in-law jared kushner. we saw this week and last week both of them voluntarily

virtually testify before the committee, both of them testifying before the panel for more than six hours each. it's unclear how, if the committee continues to probe closer and closer to donald trump's inner circle, how or whether this helps the committee in their investigation. it's definitely something we're keeping a close eye on, katie. >> thanks, allie raffa. >> does the committee need to speak to don jr. or even the former president to get to the bottom of what happened that day? later in the show, we'll talk to peter strzok who is well versed in complex investigations. an emotional celebration at the white house where judge ketanji brown jackson celebrated her history making confirmation to the supreme court. it was a big political win for president biden, but could be his last confirmed justice if republicans take control of the senate in november. julie jester is here to explain

live from wilmington, delaware. >> reporter: good morning, katie. honored to be part of your first show. as you mentioned, this confirmation was a much-needed win for the biden administration, and biden in a celebration friday called it a moment of change in american history. he also didn't hold back on his thoughts about the contentious confirmation hearings for judge jackson. he called it, quote, verbal abuse saying that the anger, the constant interruptions, the vial, baseless accusations were thrown at the judge by republicans in the senate, but he noted that judge jackson showed the utmost integrity, character and poise in responding to their behavior. now, as for judge jackson, she had a very gracious celebratory, happy moment yesterday, noting

it took -- prior appointments before a black woman was nominated and confirmed to sit on the supreme court of the united states. take a listen to what she had to say in her special moment. >> in my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the supreme court of the united states. >> reporter: and while biden is celebraing this much-needed win with his first supreme court nomination succeeding, it could be his last nominee given that the midterms are coming up in the fall, and if republicans retake control of the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell could become the majority leader, and he has been quite coy this week as to whether he would give a vote to any future biden supreme court nominees. as you may recall, he obstructed

president obama's nominee of merrick garland. this week he said he wouldn't play his cards, but that biden would have to show his moderate side in order for him to even consider putting someone else to a vote. we'll see if biden will get another chance. as for this weekend, he will be heading here to wilmington to unwind after what was quite a wild week of supreme court confirmation hearings. katie. >> my thanks to you julia jester live in wilmington. do you remember that trucker convoy that clogged traffic in d.c. for weeks? well, it's making its way back to the west coast. with a rally planned tomorrow in downtown l.a., the group of about 100 trucks has been protesting covid restrictions and vaccine mandates for a month, now taking aim at covid-related bills in california including one that requires vaccination as a condition for employment. democratic lawmakers shelved that bill after the rate of

infections started to go down. we still have so much to get to in our inaugural show. when we come back, evidence of republican sympathy for vladimir putin piling up this week. we're going to break down the origins of the gop's putin problem. i'll ask russian expert evelyn farkas about the impact of these comments. that's coming up next. before we go to break, dara brown has other top stories you may have missed from yesterday. >> hey there, katie. we're learning more about what investigators found in the apartment of two men accused of impersonating federal officers. one of the two men charged offered an assault rifle to one of joe biden's secret service agents. the pair impersonated federal agents for over two years. one of the this morning there are 53 positive covid cases connected to the gridiron

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republicans are working hard to create the narrative that president biden is soft on russia. the facts will tell a different story. just this week when the house voted on whether to investigate russian war crimes after the atrocities in bucha, the only no votes were six republicans including marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar. the right is also embracing

other authoritarians. next month cpac is holding its next conference in hungary. the speaker prime minister viktor orban, a putin ally who called zelenskyy a, quote, enemy. republicans like matt gaetz and madison cawthorn piped up to call ukraine corrupt and incredibly evil. some say you can trace the gop's putin problem back to donald trump, especially in 2018 when he met with the russian president in helsinki and held a joint press conference. in an opinion piece for nbc news, the former gop congressional communications director said, quote, during his presidency, trump's affinity for putin was even more reprehensible. his litany of trance grekss involving putin and russia is too lengthy to list here.

trump attacked the press and refused to criticize putin for election interference. to this day he's loud and proud about his relationship with his relationship with putin. with republicans aiding putin's narrative and the war in ukraine tragically not looking like it's going to end any time soon, what can we expect? let's bring in dr. evelyn farkas, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia during obama administration. evelyn, we've seen the importance of that propaganda war in this conflict. just how harmful is it for putin to have american politicians here on american soil who seem to be solidly in his corner. >> first, katy, congratulations on your show. i'm honored to be on the first episode. look, this is deadly serious. right now we're in a fight for

our democracy. remember this started in 2016 when the russians started making contact with trump campaign of firms trying to share information with them. there's a long list of them. it included, of course, famously donald trump jr. who had a meeting with russians in trump tower. it also included paul manafort who was actively working at the time with a known russian intelligence operative. there are many more, but we don't have time to go into it. fast forward to today, there are odd relationships, we don't know exactly, there's some information out there, "newsweek" and others have covered, madison cawthorn's weird trip to russia. the russians, the only thing we need to know, they would like to turn us against one another, basically corrupt our politicians by using information they have against them, by using dirty money in our campaigns, another tactic they used in 2016

and 2018. what's really dangerous about it is this is a situation now where ukraine is fighting for democracy, but it's fighting for democracy not just for ukraine but for all of us. what's at stake is the international order. frankly, these members of congress are siding with a brutal dictator who is murdering women and children on live television. there's no excuse there should be no place for any of these members of congress to hide with that kind of rhetoric. >> evelyn, the domestic battles we have in terms of the republicans here in america basically parroting that putin narrative, i know yesterday you talked to nicolle wallace. i want to expand on this and get us over into ukraine. you said your feeling is that u.s. officials believe putin will not stop until he is militarily defeated. what does that mean for ukraine's current strategy in your opinion?

i'm not sure if the allies should react as the war shifts to a new phase in the east by doing something bigger and stronger. >> i think our reaction has to be actually to provide more assistance to ukraine. again, we don't need to be directly involved, but we need to provide them with the weaponry so they have the best chance of pushing the russians out. vladimir putin is not going to change his mind about trying to control ukraine and destroy democracy in eastern europe. that is his objective. he wants to maintain his hold on power and keep that autocratic, klepto kratic system in russia, not just in russia, but frankly the whole era that was the soviet union, even perhaps the russian empire. he will not stop at his objective. if we have even a compromise while vladimir putin is in the kremlin, that will just be a cease-fire. that's why i'm saying he understands nothing but actually military defeat. so we need to hell the ukrainians. that means our government needs

to be unified in congress. thankfully, these people who are making these russian fabricated comments in our media and elsewhere are really the fringe, and we should keep it that way. >> evelyn, quickly, with the time i have left with you, you wrote a piece in january before russia actually did invade ukraine, and you talked about the fact that you felt like there should be a stronger military presence that's given by the united states and other nato members. do you still stand by that position? >> well, my argument there with other experts was that we shouldn't take anything off the table, that because of the humanitarian situation that we were already seeing when we signed that letter, the death and destruction visited upon innocent civilians from the air, that we should keep on the table the possibility of a humanitarian no-fly zone if we need it in order to save lives. i'm really informed by my background working in bosnia in

'96 after the war and writing about the war and how we were so late to help the bosnians and to actually save lives and bring that war to an end. i don't like seeing the president take anything off the table that might be useful down the road. >> dr. evelyn farkas, thank you for being on my inaugural show and thank you for your insight. >> thank you. coming up, the don't say gay copycats. more straets are introducing bills that look just like the controversial one ron desantis just signed into law. i'll sit down with two florida lawmakers to talk about how the sunshine state has sadly background zero for the cultural war's legislation, and what are the democrats doing to fight back? a little later in our hour, we'll tour my new home away from home. teemundo anchor ariana lopez gave me a tour. we may or may not have gotten into trouble in the prop room. stick around for some of that

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so it may have sparked nationwide backlash, but that didn't stop state lawmakers in ohio and alabama to move on bills this week that are disturbingly similar to florida's so-called don't say gay bill, which as we know bans discussions -- governor desanity signing the bill into law despite his own acknowledgment that these conversations rarely happen in the classroom. >> to get into situations where you're not having the parent -- you're hiding things from the parent, you're injecting these concepts about choosing your gender, that is just inappropriate for our schools. i don't support that going on. i don't think it's going on in large numbers -- >> he doesn't think it's going on in large numbers.

so the don't say gay bill isn't an outlier. republicans in florida have been laser-focused on some of the most divisive hard right policies the nation has seen in recent times. a bill nicknamed the stop woke act would stop workplaces from making feel discomfort when it comes to talks like racism. a recent law banning transgender girls from sports. politico is dubbing florida ground zero for america's culture wars with a sole purpose of rallying the base going into the midterms and beyond. but to what end. what are the democrats doing to fight back? let's explore that with panelist state representative richelle rain know and representative jay piz sew, both from florida. michelle, i've laid out the most prominent examples. we're also seeing book banning,

mainstreaming of abortion bans. the list is just read meat for republicans. what are democrats doing to combat this? >> katie, first off, i'm excited to be here on your inaugural show. it's amazing, beautiful set. what are democrats doing? i think we have to take back the message. what we're seeing is that republicans are able to capitalize on this message of, quote, unquote, parental rights and freedom, but at what cost and really en capsulizing it with fear. as democrats, we have to take back the message. i know what i'm doing especially in my district is that, you know, when i go door knock, i knock at the beginning of the month when people have to pay their rent, pay their mortgage. that's when they're like, why is my rent so high? why am i paying a $650 increase. then i can say, listen, this is why, your governor is focused on making sure that people aren't saying gay and that we can't

talk about black history, but he's not concerned about the everyday issues that matter at your table. i think we have to capitalize on those moments where people are hurting the most in order to be able to really combat what i think the gop is doing. >> michelle, you're going door-to-door, you're grass rooting this and you're getting that message across. is there a better strategy that's going to be like -- what is that say? work smarter, not harder. how can you do it better and get the word out in a bigger sense? >> i agree with you. if i had that, i would probably not be sitting here. i would probably be running the party. i think we have to -- we've seen a master class when it comes to strategy and messaging. we have to take that back. i think there's folks like myself and like my good friend senator pizzo. when it comes to communities of color, i think we have to be in

these communities. we saw what happened in georgia. it was not overnight. this was ten-plus years of being rooted in the community, of working and organizing there and making sure that people in the community were engaged in the process. i think we have to do this here. a lot of times we want this overnight success, and that can't happen. they weren't overnight with their success, and we can't be overnight with ours. >> jason, you've been in tallahassee a lot longer. i think it's important because these bills are getting mirrored in other states. they often say in those other states, in alabama, oklahoma, hey, look at the language in the florida bill. i think you've done a great job, jason, in tallahassee of explaining there's no real definitions of what's going on in this don't say gay bill. can you let our viewers know what's severely lacking that makes this bill unconstitutional. >> you and i were both prosecutors, state prosecutors in miami-dade county. the one thing you recall, you can't just make things up.

>> that's right. >> and you have to be prepared. you can get in trouble in front of a judge in a courtroom if you're saying things that are not true and being very vague on things. this past session really cemented for me what my role is. democrats are in the minority, have been for a ng very long time. what i seek to do is lay a record, just because i can't escape the sort of divisive inindividual yous discrimination that laces through all these bills. republicans, especially in florida, hold the majority for so long, have gotten rather glutinous and a little lazy as relates to the words they're using and not being prepared, feeling they have to be prepared. the don't say gay bill is 1312 words. i asked for the definition of two terms, four words, gender identity and sexual orientation. >> and? >> and when i asked about sexual orientation, the bill sponsor, at long last in session towards the end of the week after having it for a few weeks said i'm not

prepared to give you a definition. i asked about gender identity. >> and? >> he said i'm not going to be cross examined by you and go down that path. i'll ask one of my lawyer friends here. then i asked one of the attorneys, a republican in the senate and gave a definition. i said it's possible that it's homosexuality and hetero sexuality. he said, yeah, that's a good definition. >> they're making it up as you go along. >> to your point, it's all about this playbook. i said a couple years ago out loud, which i'm known to do, to be candid in session. it used to be democrats versus republicans. now it's clearly and distinctly republicans trying to distance themselves and make their own case on a national scale. it is the playbook. i started this past year -- obviously last year in texas with an abortion bill. we soon followed with our own. there's transgender athlete bill and then others followed. we're seeing the same sort of pattern.

>> i unfortunately have to rap and you guys have to come back. it's way too important. what's happening in florida is happening in other states. i want to make sure everybody understands. thank you so much congresswoman -- sorry, i'll get you to congress. state representative and state senator. after the break, family ties. days after ivanka trump to the january 6th committee, bombshell reporting on don jr.'s attempts at keeping his father in power. out better believe there are receipts. the test of family loyalty? that's coming up next. 's coming. (fisher investments) in this market, you'll find fisher investments is different than other money managers. (other money manager) different how? aren't we all just looking for the hottest stocks? (fisher investments) nope. we use diversified strategies to position our client's portfolios for their long-term goals. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions for you, right?

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picture this: two days after the presidential election in 2020, donald trump's eldest son texted then white house chief of staff mark meadows strategies that would keep his father in power regardless of the election outcome, and that is what happened. according to cnn, quote, it's very simple, don jr. texted on november 5th, adding later, we have multiple paths, we control them all. the report says he makes specific reference to filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results as well as having a handful of republican statehouses put forward slates of fake trump

electors. nbc news has not been able to independently confirm this reporting. however, responding to cnn, don jr.'s lawyer said after the election don jr. received numerous messages. given the date, this likely originated from someone else and was forwarded. this as nbc news is reporting that the january 6th committee is considering calling donald trump himself to testify after speaking with his own daughter and his son-in-law jared kushner. so to reiterate, in just one week, the investigative panel has pursued avenues involving the people closest to the former president, his own family. meanwhile, stop the steal organizer ali alexander says he's cooperating with justice department investigators who are trying to get to the bottom of how the rallies on january 6th were funded and organized. for more on all of this, we're joined by former fbi agent and author of "compromised," peter

strzok. peter, true for being here on my first show. the january 6th committee, it has interviewed jared and ivanka. now we're learning about these don jr. text messages to mark meadows. you worked for the fbi. you ran some very serious and complex probes including the trump russia investigation. at this point, peter, what does it say to you that the investigation has gotten to people this close to trump, members of his own family and what kind of questions would you have for don jr.? >> hey, katie, good morning. first, congratulations on your show. thanks for having me on. it's a huge honor. this is the path i would expect the investigation to take, whether it's one being done by congress or the parallel investigation that the doj and fbi are doing. typically people at the bottom, you're more likely to gather information and start getting a better picture. as you move up the chain, you want to approach people having

background knowledge of what they've done, things they've said. in this case, don jr.'s texts, you want to know all those things before you have him in an interview setting. you want to know what he said. you want to know if these ideas he was forwarding on to mark meadows were coming from other people and if so, who, so by the time you sit down with somebody you have a robust chronology of what they did and what they were saying. a., people don't tend to want to be fully cooperative. you want to know what they did when you sit down with them to be able to push them on issues, or if they try to say something or avoid something, you can put a document in front of them to refresh their recollection or to cause them to have to say the truth. i expect this is the path that would be followed. i think investigators, whether at congress or the doj, are going to have a lot of questions for don jr. in particular about who he was talking to. a successful day for don jr. is

one when he remembered the correct sequence is the socks come before the shoes. he didn't come up with these ideas on his own. the question is where did they come from? is this part of a coordinated activity? it certainly appears to be what played out when january 6th came around. >> i have total respect for the process, that that's how things, quote, may be usually done. i'm going to push back for a second. i am impatient. that is a character flaw of mine. i want to know, there's so much happening in public, all this evidence that's come up. do we really need to wait and try to get to donald trump if i'm the january 6th committee or even the doj? isn't there enough there to be able to go and say, you know what, it's time to indict him? >> i think, katie, it depends. as an investigator and certainly you as a prosecutor know that there are some things you can't rush. you have to build evidence. you have to collect emails, analyze emails. you have to build a case and go

to somebody. in many cases, the hardest part of any crime in my experience is demonstrating intent. you can have the other elements of the crime satisfied. but you need to be able to show that somebody knew what they were doing was wrong. in many cases for really complex things like this, you have to have somebody on the inside. we saw in the new york criminal case that there was a great deal of trouble when you hit the top, there was a lot of expectation that weisselberg, the chief financial officer, would cooperate and talk about what trump knew or didn't know in the context of the real estate valuations. it's the same thing here. you want somebody that is going to tell you what president trump at the end of the day, the ultimate top of the pyramid of all of this, you want somebody to tell you, yeah, he knew this or he said this or he didn't know that. nobody who knows that is likely to tell you that voluntarily. so what that means is you've got to have people -- the first person that comes to mind is mark meadows -- with enough

leverage over there saying you need to cooperate. he's not going to do that based on just a contempt of congress citation. if you can build other crimes, other places he has criminal exposure and say, look, instead of facing a few months in jail, you might be facing decades in jail, that's a lot more motivating to get somebody to change their mind and cooperate with you. >> peter strzok, thank you for your time this morning and for joining me. we'll definitely have you back. >> thanks, katie. coming up next, from mornings at telemundo to new mornings here at msnbc, you won't want to miss the warm welcome i received from add marry lopez, the popular host at the morning show here in miami. you'll get a magic look at how that happens. stick around for velshi at the top of the hour. his conversations with young

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>> thank you to adamari lopez. there is a saying friends are the family we choose for ourselves and i've been blessed with friends who are also family. they have sported me, checked me, and continued to lift me up. i could not be here today with all of you, and you know who you are. you know my family is the most important and valuable gift in my life. my family is my rock and my foundation. i'd like to thank my mom, husband, daughter, and dog for their unending support. they have lived this lifestyle of early mornings, late nights and interrupted vacations to support my dream, and never

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good morning, it is saturday, april the 9th. it is day 45 of russia's invasion of ukraine. i'm ali velshi in lviv, ukraine. the curfew has lifted and people are up and about around the city. in every european city i've